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Pructus Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Deny A to B

Hi!

Would you deny His yeanings to be knonw?

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Is it to be understood as (A) "deny His yearnings that He wants to be known to people"?

or (B) "don't want His yearnings to be known to people"?

Or, at least grammatically, both are possible?
  

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Only A seems reasonable: 'Would you not let him be known to people, which is what he wishes?'
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Thanks a lot, Mister Micawber....

Google shows lots of sentences like "He denied her to enter the room", which is of the same sentence sturucture as (B) and they are written by native speakers.

These things give me some confusion about correct use of the verb "deny"....
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If 'He denied her to enter the room' is written by natives, they are also illiterate. 'He denied her entry.'
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Followings are the structure, "deny A to Verb", seeming to mean "deny A's doing Verb-ing".

How would you consider these sentence forms? Not good English?

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What can a Project Manager do? Limit edits. Approve or deny applications to be a manager.

some might deny its claim to be regarded as a world at all.

deny himsel
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The last three I consider ill formations. The others are fine, as they have a noun object.
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Thank you, Mister Micawber........
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Hi Pructus

The second to last one is actually OK. You just need to parse it properly:
pructusBut I don't want the person whose visa was denied to get into any further trouble in Australia, neither now nor later.
But I don't want the person [whose visa was denied] to get into any further trouble in Australia, neither now nor later.
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